Quotes About Iteration

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to discover problems that could not be foreseen any other way, and to make midcourse adjustments

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Each algorithm is a feedback loop, taking an action, observing the resulting conditions, and taking another action after that. Again, and again, and again. It's an iterative process, in which the algorithms adjust themselves and their activity on every loop, responding less to the news on the ground than to one another. Such systems go out of control because the feedback of their own activity has become louder than the original signal.

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

The iterative piece of agile can be defined by four key terms: iterative, feature-based, timeboxed, and incremental.

The feature delivery approach helps define a workable interface between customers and product developers.

Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews—product, technical, process, team—is also self-correcting.

Executives, project leaders, and development teams must embrace a different view of the new product development world, one that not only recognizes change in the business world, but also understands the power of driving down iteration costs to enable experimentation and emergent processes. Understanding these differences and how they affect product development is key to understanding APM.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.

When you start over and jump into new tech, you don't know what the negatives are going to be until you go through a few cycles. We're always changing our tech, but we don't wholly destroy it with each game. We're taking parts out.

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

We were developing a principle with the music box that we tried to stick with for the rest of our toy career," Ruth explained. "If you develop a basic mechanism or a basic concept, you develop one or two or three items around that concept at the initial introduction, and then year after year you add new products around the initial concept.

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.